As educators, it is often essential to compile a list of resources that can be utilized in the classroom by the students, the teacher, or both. Listed below are recommendations of books, websites, etc., that we have found useful.
Language Arts Bibliography Tool: This site aids students in creating correctly formatted Works Cited pages using MLA and APA styles.
Biography Maker: This site leads students through the important steps necessary to write an exciting biography.
Literature Electronic Literature Foundation(ELF): This site provides free access to a variety of texts from world literature that includes authors like William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Voltaire, Arabian Nights, Geoffrey Chaucer, and so forth. The text are available in several languages, with accompanying translations, and in different editions for all types of readers.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: This site offers detailed information about every major literary period in English Literature from the middle ages to modern day. For each literary period, the site offers summaries and multiple choice quiz to review the material and check for understanding. The site's archive contains a chronological index, author index, and audio readings of various texts. This site is an excellent resource for teachers or students who are researching about a certain literary time period in English Literature.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature: This site offers detailed information about the major literary periods in American Literature and about influential American authors. There is a review section for all the information provide on the site which include sumaries and multiple choice questions. This is a useful resource for both teachers and students who are researching about an American author or a time period in American Literature.
Humanities Edsitement: this is an amazing site for teachers in the humanities. It offers tons of free unit and lesson plans for all grade levels and for the subject categories of art and culture, literature and language arts, history and social studies, and foreign language. The site has also reviewed and includes links to over 200 of the top humanities sites.
Educator Resources Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC): this database provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials.
Regional Educational Labs (REL): the Regional Educational Laboratory Program consists of a network of ten laboratories providing access to high quality educational research through projects, studies, and other related technical assistance activities.
Graphic Organizers: Many useful graphic organizers answering to all levels of cognitive development can be found at EduPlace.com.
TeAchnology: this online teacher resource offers numerous tools for teachers from K-12 in any content area. The resources provided in the site include; lesson plans, printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, downloads, games, WebQuests, and links to other informative websites.
4Teachers.org: this is a great online site to find countless resources that will help teachers find and/or create such things as ready-to-use lessons, rubrics, games, calendars, classroom designs, and classroom assignments. The site links to useful resources like
Language Arts
Bibliography Tool: This site aids students in creating correctly formatted Works Cited pages using MLA and APA styles.
Biography Maker: This site leads students through the important steps necessary to write an exciting biography.
Literature
Electronic Literature Foundation(ELF): This site provides free access to a variety of texts from world literature that includes authors like William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Voltaire, Arabian Nights, Geoffrey Chaucer, and so forth. The text are available in several languages, with accompanying translations, and in different editions for all types of readers.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: This site offers detailed information about every major literary period in English Literature from the middle ages to modern day. For each literary period, the site offers summaries and multiple choice quiz to review the material and check for understanding. The site's archive contains a chronological index, author index, and audio readings of various texts. This site is an excellent resource for teachers or students who are researching about a certain literary time period in English Literature.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature: This site offers detailed information about the major literary periods in American Literature and about influential American authors. There is a review section for all the information provide on the site which include sumaries and multiple choice questions. This is a useful resource for both teachers and students who are researching about an American author or a time period in American Literature.
Humanities
Edsitement: this is an amazing site for teachers in the humanities. It offers tons of free unit and lesson plans for all grade levels and for the subject categories of art and culture, literature and language arts, history and social studies, and foreign language. The site has also reviewed and includes links to over 200 of the top humanities sites.
Educator Resources
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC): this database provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials.
Regional Educational Labs (REL): the Regional Educational Laboratory Program consists of a network of ten laboratories providing access to high quality educational research through projects, studies, and other related technical assistance activities.
Graphic Organizers: Many useful graphic organizers answering to all levels of cognitive development can be found at EduPlace.com.
TeAchnology: this online teacher resource offers numerous tools for teachers from K-12 in any content area. The resources provided in the site include; lesson plans, printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, downloads, games, WebQuests, and links to other informative websites.
4Teachers.org: this is a great online site to find countless resources that will help teachers find and/or create such things as ready-to-use lessons, rubrics, games, calendars, classroom designs, and classroom assignments. The site links to useful resources like
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